The woman on the other end of the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal came forward today, saying that she felt “manipulated” by the self-professed “perpetually horny middle-aged man.”

“I felt manipulated. Because obviously I felt like he’s saying one thing to me, say another thing to his wife, say another thing on the campaign,” said Sydney Leathers, who spoke to Inside Edition about the texts she exchanged with the mayoral candidate, in an interview to air Thursday.

The 23-year-old said that Weiner sent her two “very explicit” text messages, and later when their relationship upgraded to actual phone calls, they would have phone-sex at least twice a week.

Later down in the relationship, when it started to “fizzle,” for no apparent reason (though Leathers said she suspected it was due to his jealousy over minor things), she didn’t think it was because he feared for his campaign or reputation.

“I feel like he suspected that this could happen but he didn’t do a lot to protect himself from it. He was making these campaign promises that he had totally changed and he was a better man now and he learned from his mistakes and I am proof that that is not true,” she said.

“Anthony Weiner is responsible for his downfall,” Leathers said. ”I feel sick about it. I’m disgusted by him. He is not who I thought he was.”

Leathers, who is from Mount Carmel, Ill., first had contact with Weiner through Facebook, when she messaged him criticizing him for the 2011 scandal. A year after, she responded to a “poke” she received from him on Facebook. She told Inside Edition that it was Weiner who turned their conversations sexual and it all happened “very quickly.”

Their last encounter was about four months ago when he texted her, asking her to delete all of their chats.

“Obviously I knew that he wanted me to erase any evidence of our conversations, because that was around the time I knew that he was going to run for mayor,” Leathers, who is a political science major and a self professed “political junkie,” said in the interview.

According to Inside Edition, Leathers cried while watching Weiner’s news conference when he admitted to the relationship, and said she wanted to apologize to Huma Abedin.

“I just feel very, very sorry for my part and the pain that she obviously feels,” she said.